United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2003-07-01 monographic deposited born digital 31 p. GA 1.13:GAO-03-536 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-536 P0b002ee1803700b5 f:d03536 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-536 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-536 GAO-03-536 Biomedical research Federal funds Federal procurement Funds management License agreements Licenses Research and development Technology transfer Other Written Product A07462 The Bayh-Dole Act gives federal contractors, grantees, and cooperative agreement funding recipients the option to retain ownership rights to inventions they create as part of a federally sponsored research project and profit from commercializing them. The act also protects the government's interests, in part by requiring that federal agencies and their authorized funding recipients retain a license to practice the invention for government purposes. GAO examined (1) who is eligible to use and benefit from the government's license to federally funded biomedical inventions, (2) the extent to which the federal government has licenses to those biomedical inventions it procures or uses most commonly, and (3) the extent to which federal agencies and authorized federal funding recipients have actually used or benefited from these licenses. GAO focused its work on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the Department of Defense (DOD), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIH commented that the report implies that the government's right to use its license is more limited than it actually is. GAO recognizes that the right of federal agencies and their funding recipients to use a federally funded invention is unrestricted. However, GAO believes that these license rights can be used only to meet needs that are reasonably related to the requirements of federal programs. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-536/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-536.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-536/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-536.pdf GAO-03-536 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-536 Other Written Product GAO-03-536; Technology Transfer: Agencies' Rights to Federally Sponsored Biomedical Inventions; Biomedical research Federal funds Federal procurement Funds management License agreements Licenses Research and development Technology transfer Public Law 96-480 Public Law 96-517 Public Law 102-585